Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This gift has an all day use. In the evening for parties, it pops corn. In the morning, it poaches eggs. It can also boil tea, cook soup, and keep hot buttered rum and toddies warm. This only suggests its manifold uses--heating the baby's bottle is another--which will come to the resourceful recipient. Regularly priced at $6.75, it is going for $5.75 at Bay State...
...four stills had produced about 20 gallons of rum and cider when they were broken up. He commented that the revenuers told him that if he "ever did it again, keep it quiet." He claimed that they also gave him some tips on the process...
...residents, some 8,000 women practice the world's oldest profession. The city lacks U.S.-style restaurants, ballrooms and respectable bars, and in the evenings its downtown streets are deserted. But the red-light zones on Medellin's outskirts are lively with lights, music, rum and loose women...
...largest of the illegal stills has been in operation all fall. The students who own it have produced rum and applejack 150 proof, according to reports...
Freshman sophomores feuds are as old as the college itself. In what is some times termed the Golden Age, the classes fought over a keg of rum. Then a huge 10 foot push ball was purchased, but too many men got crushed in the melee. After that, the football rush was instituted. The two classes lined up at opposite ends of a field. Five footballs were placed in the middle. At a signal, each class tried to get footballs over the other goal line. It the freshmen managed to beat their bloody way through the sophomores three times, they were...